Poorly crafted legislation primarily driven by unions that want new members = more union dues and designed to punish gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft, is now coming back to destroy the same people it was meant to protect. CA continues to show that it is the most business hostile state as it attempts to legislate every business into extinction. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind!!
Uber currently uses Mattermost but will most likely move to Slack.
During my 2 years at Amazon, the SFO based Prime Now team used Mattermost but we were eventually forced to move to Chime a pitiful example of a chat client.
San Francisco is basically Gotham city without Batman and City hall is Arkham Asylum. The newly elected DA is bound to make it worse as he focuses on decriminalizing all non-violent crimes. In the words of my Uncle "You made your bed, now you must sleep in it.."
Children are born with optimism for life even in the face of daunting circumstances, I see this in my kids all the time and I'm raising them to understand that life has its challenges but that they have opportunities to be productive and impactful as members of society. We do a disservice and a wrong to our children when all we speak to them is despair and apocalyptic outcomes, we destroy their hope in life and value of fellow humans..
psst..pretty sure the judicial branch already went off the rails on that and has been actively making laws instead of interpreting them ergo "judicial activism"
`So Uber as a service hasn't been that revolutionary in London, the things they HAVE done is improve the ordering UX and making CC's ubiquitous.` - the daily trip volumes tell a different story and clearly show there's an impact.
In the context of Uber vs NJ, the drivers are already remitting taxes as contractors. The $650M demand from the state isn't a driver initiative with them demanding "Uber needs to pay more taxes.." it's the state saying "What we've collected from drivers isn't enough and we want more from Uber.."
I'm always weary of any telco pushing an "unlimited data" product, the terms and conditions attached to the product definitely makes one think twice and basically end up being "Unlimited data but [a lot of terms and conditions hidden at the very bottom that they know most people won't read and by the time they do it is too late]
PG&E has close to 16 million customers and over 70K square miles, I doubt there's any municipal utility that operates at that scale but I could be wrong.
Experience is subjective and varies depending on which one you go to, my first interaction was at the Oakland DMV where I had an appointment for the drive test, they got round to me close to 2hrs after my appointment. The DMV in San Francisco has horrendously long lines with very slow processing times.
I'm going to use the DMV as a benchmark of the ability of the state to get anything done, and then ask everyone to imagine PG&E being run like the DMV. Bureaucracies only succeed in optimizing additional red tape, and it baffles me that CA residents are cheering on this takeover!!
here's our current definition:
1/ Ads that refer to an election or a candidate, or
2/ Ads that advocate for or against legislative issues of national importance (such as: climate change, healthcare, immigration, national security, taxes)
Would a pro-life advert, which has obvious political ramifications depending on which side of the divide you are on, qualify as a political ad? I ask because Twitter has actively been blocking/stopping pro-life organizations from running ads with zero transparency on how the decision was arrived at or which policy it violates, but doesn't apply the same standard to pro-choice groups and in fact gives them carte blanche to continue running ads. Twitter has clearly shown its bias on multiple occasions and I don't expect this to change in the short or long term.
Long story short, parents need to consistently enforce strong rules regarding lights out time at an early age and eliminate excessive external stimuli as the day winds down. This idea that teenagers who can't make responsible choices are left to define their sleep time as well as other rules borders on child abuse.
This "most teenagers stay up late" must be unique to U.S./European teenagers with access to computers, video games, mobile phones, internet and lax parental supervision. As someone who went to boarding school from age 14-18 years where sleep and wake up time was well regulated I can tell you for a fact that we all looked forward to sleep time. Most students preferred waking up earlier to study to take advantage of the quiet and focus.
Kenyan here (but currently living stateside), the inverse is seen in cities like Nairobi for one simple reason, high occurrence of petty crimes like phone snatching/muggings will make you think twice about walking around like a zombie staring at your device. Situational awareness is a necessary survival skill.
The angst against "voter ID" as a form of voter disenfranchisement makes no sense to me, as an immigrant the first thing I did when I got to the U.S. is secure a form of government issued ID - stateID or drivers license, because I understood that having an ID enabled me to do something as simple as getting a library card so that I could borrow books for my family and I https://web.ocpl.org/n/LibraryCardApplication/#/ In fact the DMV is packed with immigrants trying to get stateID because they recognize the benefits accrued from having one. The process is simple and straightforward and in my view would silence the whole "non-citizens and illegal immigrants are allowed to vote".